Indian Comic Covers

Welcome to the first ever blog dedicated to comic covers from India.The covers posted here are from my own collection unless stated otherwise.The contents of the comics will not be posted owing to copyright regulations.Furthermore,the cover scans will not be cleaned and will be presented in their original form to prove that they have come out from my own collection and not from any other source.

Tuesday, 31 March 2015

Presenting a rare gem of a Tamil cover today. This can be described as one of the ten 'mythical' forefathers of Amar Chitra Katha (ACK) as we know it today.I call them as mythical, because everyone knows that the first ten issues exist, but it is extremely hard to find one.

As history goes, the first ten issues of ACK were reprints of popular western folktales and it was not until issue No.11 that indigenous stories began appearing, starting with 'Krishna'.Another interesting fact is that these ten issues were published only in regional languages and not in English.

This is issue No.8 and titled in Tamil as 'Oz Naatu Mayavi' which as you would have guessed from the cover stands for 'Wizard of Oz'. This comic was published sometime in 1967

Thursday, 25 December 2014

Presenting another rare comic cover from the Spectrum Stable. Published in September 1986, this is Issue No.23.

This issue features an exciting story involving the 'FoolKiller' as the primary villain. For those who are not familiar with the 'FoolKiller', Wikipedia has a detailed entry about him (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foolkiller)

As for the story itself, it originally appeared in the Amazing Spiderman issue No.225 which was published by the Marvel Comics Group in February 1982.A detailed review of this story can further be found on this link (http://notahoaxnotadream.blogspot.in/2014/08/the-amazing-spider-man-225.html)

Saturday, 18 October 2014

Presenting a very rarely seen comic cover. This one is a 3D comic published by Star Comics, who were one of the pioneers of introducing 3D comics in India. This book does not have a publishing date but it can be safely guessed that it was published sometime in the mid 1980's